Whatever our different motivations and approaches (and resources) may be, mineral collecting unites us. Questions/threads like this...with inherent implications that there is only one way to do it ri ...

Marv, I think you are carrying this discussion too far away from minerals and too far into politics. You clearly have some deeply held beliefs on this subject, but FMF is not the proper place to promu ...

First of all, a good education should mean learning how to think, not just doing a job...there is a difference between education and training. I'm much more concerned about the effects on education o ...

Here are two more examples. One is a stalactite of essentially pure datolite with only a few tiny calcites...the other is a miniature of the stalactitic datolite with small calcites sprinkled over the ...